29 – 31 MAY / The University as an Urban Cultural Institute / 2nd UNICA ‘University, Culture and the City’ Conference

10 June 2017, 10:00

THE UNIVERSITY AS AN URBAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE

2nd UNICA ‘University, Culture and the City’ Conference

29 – 31 MAY 2017

Sofia University / Rectorate

The event follows the 1st UNICA “University, Culture and the City” Conference held at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 16-17 May 2016. Find out more about the 1st Conference here.

The Conference in Sofia will focus on how cultural diversity can be implemented at universities and how scientific research and academic culture can open up to the city and become a significant factor in urban and cultural life.

The Conference is open to scholars, policy and decision makers and practitioners with experience and interest in the above-mentioned topic. The conference will consist of academic and policy oriented panels and will aim at addressing both theoretical and practical issues of the relationship between the universities and the city life.

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

SECTION 3 / Interaction Between Cultural and Academic Policies

10:30 – 11:00The Cultural Centre of Sofia University as Chance for Opening the Academic Citadel Toward the City by Alexander KIOSSEV, Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Sofia University